NightRunner417

21 Nov 2024

I have started making my first block list. Note this is not intended to silence all righty-tighties as much as I would love to. It's for people that spend beyond 70% of their time trying to upset other users. It's for the trash, plain and simple. You don't like it, too bad. You love it, great!

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20 Jan 2025

youtube.comFunkadelic - Maggot Brain [HQ]YouTube video by NickMystic

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20 Jan 2025

youtube.comEve Of DestructionYouTube video by Barry McGuire - Topic

23 Dec 2024

And for a bit of light reading, tonight's subject is... how to make a diamond! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o5R...

@cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social

21 Dec 2024

My neighbor officially moved out today. I knew this was coming for a while but I feel absolutely gutted, I'm just so sad right now I'm literally surprised by the depth of it. Crying like an idiot. Something to think about: The true measure of success is how you affect the people you leave behind.

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Common Sense

18 Dec 2024

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

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theevilwriter.bsky.social

@theevilwriter.bsky.social

15 Nov 2024

::waves:: I'm new here

15 Dec 2024

The Geminids are pretty impressive this year. Very bright and frequent. Notice Gemini dead center of the video, hence "Geminids". The radiant is very obviously in the Gemini region - lots of them radiating around that spot as the Earth plows through that direction in space, picking up meteoric dust.

youtube.comLEAK: Trump Threatens ALL OF CANADA in Private MeetYouTube video by Adam Mockler

This maniac isn't even in office yet and already he's making joking remarks TO Canada about taking their territory. This is going south even faster than I expected. Again, make no mistake, all of this is an effort to destroy the US to open Russia to world domination. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcxS...

Funny to me in the darkest of ways that a political inclination once notorious for yammering about the threats of a "New World Order" are in fact going to be responsible for creating it.

youtube.comLEAK: Trump Threatens ALL OF CANADA in Private MeetYouTube video by Adam Mockler

This is the unsurprising continuation of his previous trend of threatening our existing allies. I would expect a flip soon, dropping current allies in favor of new, hostile ones like Russia, North Korea, and other such fascist regimes bent on conquering territory and subjugating their people.

youtube.comTrump Gets BAD NEWS from Putin and MORE HUMILIATIONYouTube video by MeidasTouch

I wonder if this will impact his plans to "End the war in 24 hours"... Things that make ya go hmmmmm... www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlpp...

Good morning BlueSky! May you all have the Bluest of skies today with nice breeze, gentle warmth, and those cool little puffy cumulus clouds just a blowin' along while the butterflies dance. And also: Evil Laugh Ensues MUHUAHAHA! Being able to program is its own high. I'm God-complexin' today. >:-)

It would appear that I finally found the right amount of caffeine to get my brain working like reeeeally well, so I spent the day improving parts of my cam systems and website. Finally made use of the motion capture snapshots that have been piling up, particularly the skycam. Behold the meteorites!

And for those of you soooo persnickety that you just gotta have motion with your meteorites, this is for you. Sorry about the long runtime. The camera DVR forces 30 second minimum capture time after the trigger event, so it's always 50 seconds minimum.

In case anyone wondered, my little background picture of the Cygnus region of the Milky Way was actually shot by yours truly. All I did is stick a decent 12mm lens on a ZWO ASI385MC astro USB camera and aim it straight up for a few seconds open shutter. Anyone can do it pretty easily:

For my homies: I am very aware that my followbacks are slippin like blind people on a stairwell full of banana peels. I'm on it. I'm just a little slow, trying to catch my breath from a long and intense workweek. Even my "fun hobbies" are sitting there neglected, next to my second coffee of the day.

You can come from a position of higher morality and intelligence and STILL rain fire down on your enemies. Ukraine does this every day. History is written by the victors, and many victors were of higher moral and intellectual standard. They just failed to lay down and die with olive branch in hand.

youtube.comTrump might have THREE PANDEMICSYouTube video by David Pakman Show

Watched a little Pakman regarding the possibility of new plagues across America due to RFK Jr.'s impending insanity dominating the medical field. My thoughts are, just wait until vaccines are outright banned in the USA. This is purposeful destruction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LR_...

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CerberusXt

@cerberusxt.bsky.social

1 Dec 2024

Base(d)ball.

@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social

Only the weakest people sacrifice everything to people that they worship as greater, expecting that they'll be rewarded for it. Your reward will be life in a pen like a farm animal, being fed just enough to keep you existing until the right time for you to be harvested for their benefit. FOOLS.

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#TuckFrump

30 Nov 2024

dlvr.it'Quickly rot from within': Expert sees 3 traits the U.S. is sharing with declining empiresThe United States is currently displaying several characteristics that have historically been seen by empires in decline, according to one social scientist. Peter Turchin is one of the pioneers of "cliodynamics," which is the field of study concerning…

Wow I just had a truly inspired thought: Just wait until they trash the 2nd amendment rights because "The woke left is too dangerous to have weapons of any kind". Will they go crazy or will they just nod in agreement like the good little cultists they are? My guess is #2 because they have no balls.

youtube.comTrump’s New AG ALREADY Betrayed Republican ValuesYouTube video by Tennessee Brando

30 Nov 2024

Oh now THIS is hilarious. I had no idea when I posted that Trump's own picks had *already* been planning to thrash the 2nd amendment. And as I additionally guessed, alt-righty-tighties are cool with it because it's Trump behind it. They're creating their own demise: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdQG...

Yes, if you try to engage with me from a standpoint of supporting that idiotic self-destruction cult I WILL block you without a second thought. I have FAR more important things to do with my precious time than engage with irrational, deluded cultists trying to turn a man into their God. Get lost.

I'm seeing an awful lot of "Nobody said anything about politics" regarding Thanksgiving dinners yesterday. That's ok, I get it. But understand one thing, and it's a thing people SHOULD have abided in 2016 and didn't. COMPLACENCY IS COMPLICITY. No talk about this REALITY means no resistance. UNITE.

There are two legacies you can leave to the next generation: 1) "They taught me to seek out like minded people, form collectives, prepare for the absolute worst, spread a message of unity and resistance." 2) They taught me to complain carefully and quietly when no one was looking." Who will you be?

#1 - Thanks for what I have. There are plenty of people that are struggling way harder than I do. So, my thanks, and if I can help others with less, I shall strive to do so. #2 - BIG thanks to those that busted their asses to provide all the things we take for granted. They work hard so we can live.

27 Nov 2024

While you're busy fighting for what you know to be right against a wind of darkness trying to destroy it, do remember this: You cannot effectively fight from a position of exhaustion. Make sure while you're fighting to exist, that you don't forget to live. Do the things you love. You can do both.

27 Nov 2024

Lol imagine strolling home after dark to see a cemetery full of cats sitting there watching another cat perched atop an angel meowing at them as if giving a speech. 🤣 This was quite good. Animation was particularly impressive. Sandman - Dream of a Thousand Cats. "It's really cute..." mrrow CHOMP!

youtube.comThe Trio Visit the Lovegood House | The Deathly HallowsYouTube video by Harry Potter

For no clear reason lately Harry Potter has been on my mind. Mostly because of some hilarious lines from "Wizard People, Dear Reader", but also because of clips coming at me on YouTube because of that. And so here is one of my all time favorite scenes from the movies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Qc...

I was a good boy today, fixed my car myself, and my body hurts. Time for the reward part of the day. As a rule I DO NOT DRINK because it makes me feel like absolute shit, but since this country prefers liver failure and dead brain cells over the sweet, non destructive happiness of MJ, here we are.

WAS an SI-8 Geiger tube I had been experimenting with some time back, just never changed the title like the lazy beyotch I so often am. Now it's an SBM-19 large sized research type tube most sensitive to Gammas and Betas. If ever Russia starts nuking shit, you'll see me posting this graph a lot.

This is what I actually do for fun when I'm not attacking MAGATs like a rabid animal. This time of year when the ACs aren't running full time, my homemade seismograph can easily dig into faint earth tremors. This is mostly vehicle traffic in my region. It's VERY sensitive, picks up footsteps easily.

The vertical is even more sensitive than the horizontal but that's impeded terribly by human made noise like AC units and refrigerators in my area. It has to be VERY quiet within 300 feet or it's a mess of mechanical vibration. I can near max this out by stomping 30 feet away from it in my driveway.

Yayyyyy I finally got it done. I got a new-old Jeep Cherokee and within a week the window washers stopped working. Wasn't the nozzles, wasn't the tubing, motor was running, so I tore it down and found the intake screen grommet thing blocked with blue gunk. Took me about 2 1/2 hours total to fix.

For good measure I replaced the pump because I had already gotten a new one just in case it the old one was actually broken inside. All this because CarMax gave me some kind of cloudy blue washer fluid that gunked it up. Staffed by cave people or what? But, easiest car work I've done in a long time.

So... Centralia, my beloved RPi webserver that hosts all my Earth-science graphs and my meteor cam has DIED. Full on SD card system fail. What do we do?? Do we collapse into a wet ball of fur and cry? FUCK NO! This is the military, son! Wipe off your snot and prepare to un-fuck yourself!

And so even though it took me till almost midnight I got it all back up and running. Clean install of Bookworm. Do the FTP server, do Samba, and finally do the Apache webserver. Set up FTP users. Copy old Samba and Apache configs and fix any broken links. *SET PERMS FOR PROPER ACCESS*. Not too bad.👍

Oopsie, forgot a little something. The webserver uses a regular PC hard disk to store mass amounts of incoming camera video clips. I need to set that thing up using FSTAB to configure it to auto mount on every boot. Thus if power fails, it restores autmagically when it starts up.

FTP access is hot and verified. New files are appearing in the aggregating directory on the new server, coming in from the other RPis scattered around the house doing their thing. Now I can install the Apache web server and work on configs and access and security for the complex, active content.

Now that the new RPi OS is working and has remote admin access, the next step is to get my FTP services working again. This seems counter productive because it's supposed to be a webserver, but all this time I have almost a dozen networked Pis sending data nowhere. They need access restored first.

Ok so of course the copy over didn't work, so we're on to a fresh build. This is going to be a long process but it will result in a newer, far cleaner web server. First step is to create the OS, and make sure it is accessible via remote admin (VNC). Then I can do all the subsequent work from my PC.

Now we can multitask. I'm assuming the copy-over method won't work even with a new card because it didn't work with a trusted older card. But I can keep trying with that WHILE building an entirely new system with my second brand new card. Productivity is smokin'.

Also, as fortune would have it for once, my two new SD cards just arrived from Amazon. So now I can try to flash one of those with the image I made of the old bad card. It has all the files, it just won't boot. Maybe a copy-over will fix the entire thing. Fingers crossed, and... proceed!

Ok so, just the act of inserting this card into a reader in my PC borks the filesystem immediately. This again is common with Windows PCs and any file system it does not like. Windows and MS have had eons to make it more tolerant to filesystem issues. But whatever. We just use a healthy RPi instead.

Windows disk management won't load because the RPi flashing program borked the file system because Windows does not like the SD card formatting. So, reboot and retry. This happens quite a lot doing Linux stuff on a Windows PC. Deep breath and continue.

Very important to not be surprised at the mountain of fails we just walked into here, but just WHY? Really?? We've given it god-like power over this SD card and it can't do a simple reformat? So, now we have to force a full reformat using Windows disk management.

Tried to do the reinstall right from the networked Pi and of course it failed. SO we have to flash the memory card with the OS image using a PC. Nothing new here. Notice they recommend 64 bit. NO. 32 bit is what we want. Now we sit and wait like a stump for it to copy and be ready for the next step.

Step one: We already tried to save the card by running fixes on it. Failed. Tried to resurrect by copying contents to a good card. Failed. Next step is to give a new card a clean OS and rebuild the slow and painful way. First step is to give it the current version of Raspbian, which is..."Bookworm".